Re: Installing Rational Developer for i - version 9

On 6/19/2013 10:36 AM, Michael Quigley wrote:

I downloaded the new version of RDi, but I'm having trouble installing it.
When I try to start the Launchpad program, I end up getting an error
dialog from IExplore.html stating "Failure reading properties files. If
you are running this program from a UNC path, map the path to a drive and
start this program again from the mapped drive." I'm not using a UNC
path. My startup path is: "D:\Download\IBM\RDi\9_0\disk1\launchpad.bat"

I tried running this under my profile (which is a part of the
Administrators group) and right-clicking the application to 'Run as
administrator." I've also tried signing on to the Administrator account
and doing the right-click and "Run as administrator." Either way, I get
the same error.

Any ideas or suggestions?

I didn't even get an error; just a command window that flickered on and
off the screen. Being a software guy's worst nightmare :-) I tried
several things. What worked for me was to drill down into disk1, into
the InstallerImage for WIN32 directory. I ran install.exe from there
and it installed the new IBM Installation Manager and the new RDi
9.0.0.0 in a new package group. Made a copy of my 8.5 workspace,
pointed RDi 9 to it and it started right up.

Now playing...
--buck